Articles tagged with "kaka"
Milan 1 - Catania 2
By Gianfranco | December 20th, 2007Dear Ricky Kaka: Your brother sucks, you have worked wonders for us in the front, but in your brother's small chance in the winning eleven he ...
Brazilian Party in Switzerland (Again!)
By Bruno Romani | December 17th, 2007We have the best female footballist in the world, Marta. We have the best male footballist in the world, Kaka. We have the best beach footballist in the ...
News Roundup As Kaka (And Jesus) Take Home Another Award
By Martha | December 17th, 2007•Kaka is FIFA's World Player of the Year. Try to control your shock. •Is Luciano Moggi's phone ever not being tapped these days? Another investigation has ...
FIFA's World Player of the Year is Kaka
By Martha | December 17th, 2007To the surprise of absolutely no one, Ricky Kaka received the FIFA World Player of the Year Award today. At the end of November, we ...
Club World Cup: Boca v Milan
By Martha | December 16th, 2007Though the 4-2 scoreline flattered them in the extreme, Milan deserved their win over Boca, and are now the first European team to ever lift ...
Urawa Reds v. Milan, Game Recap
By Gianfranco | December 13th, 2007After a two hour commute home in a freaking blizzard, I have had plenty of time to reflect on this morning’s semifinal match. I ...
Kaka Is Going to Need a New Mantelpiece
By Daryl | December 13th, 2007Ricky Kaka can't open his front door for all the awards piling up on his doorstep. He already has the Ballon d'Or and is expected ...
World Club Cup: Urawa Reds v Milan
By Martha | December 13th, 2007It turns out Milan in Japan are a lot like Milan in Italy: Lots and lots (and lots) of possession, but not a lot of ...
Urawa Reds v. Milan- First & Second Half Thoughts
By Gianfranco | December 13th, 2007I wanted to live blog this game but once again work has gotten in the way, alas I would like to give my first half ...
Transfer Talk: Christmas Lists Filling Up
By chris | December 12th, 2007It's that time of year again, when everybody's making their wishes and checking them twice. Same goes for all the big boys of world football, ...
Daily Dose 12.7.2007
By Martha | December 7th, 2007Things to read as you realize backward feet are actually totally awesome. Roma's squad for the 2009 Champions League final. What? It'll happen. (Roma Offside) Six great ...
Champions League: Milan Make Their Whole Group Play
By Martha | December 4th, 2007Because of Milan's commitments to the Club World Cup in Japan, the last Group D matches -- Milan hosting Celtic, and Benfica traveling to Shakhtar ...
Weekend Wrap Up
By Gianfranco | December 2nd, 2007The Ol’Lady was in town for what turned out to be a pretty solid game from two old rivals. I believe that as a ...
Kaka in Winning Ballon d'Or Shock!
By Martha | December 2nd, 2007Yes, it's finally official: Ricky Kaka is the best player in the world, ever, according to a group of international journalists who watch a whole ...
Milan v Juventus: Honors Even
By Martha | December 1st, 2007I suppose Milan supporters will take some heart from this match -- they've once again failed to score at home, true, but after the first ...
FIFA Short, Shortlist: Kaka, Messi, (Pretty) Ronaldo
By Martha | November 30th, 2007It's nice that, after screwing up the list of the finalists (No Totti, no Zlatan, but Patrick Vieira?!) for their World Player of the Year ...
News Roundup As We Take a Deep, Post-European Breath
By Martha | November 29th, 2007•Because of their participation in the Club World Cup next month, Milan's Serie A matches against Reggina and Livorno have been postponed; the new dates ...
Golden Ball Predicted Top 10
By Martha | November 29th, 2007Probably the most prestigious individual award in world football, the Ballon d’Or will be awarded on Sunday in Paris. Barring an upset of epic proportions, ...
Champions League: Three of Four Serie A Clubs Advance
By Martha | November 28th, 2007Thanks to yet another fantastic goal from Andrea Pirlo, Milan took a point from Benfica and booked their place in the knockout round, despite facing ...
ZOMG Kaka's Going to Paris!
By Martha | November 28th, 2007Usually, La Gazzetta only report on footballer holidays over the summer, when there's not much going on and they can do some paparazzi-style stalking. Today, ...
Odds and Ends Because There's Really Not Much Going On That's Not Champions League
By Martha | November 27th, 2007•Gigi Cagni is shocked he was sacked. Aw. Poor guy -- he did take Empoli to their first-ever European place, so I suppose it wasn't ...
Monday New Roundup As We Ride the Zampa Crazy Train
By Martha | November 26th, 2007•Manuela Prandelli, the wife of Fiorentina manager Cesare Prandelli, died this morning after a long illness. I'm trying to resist the old chestnut about it ...
Tavano + Tristan = Livorno Wins AGAIN!
By Marco | November 25th, 2007*highlights and box score at the bottom With a stellar performance Livorno leap out of the relegation zone thanks to Francesco Tavano’s brace and a surprisingly ...
Kaka is the New Goldenballs
By Daryl | November 24th, 2007Word on the Italian media grapevine is that we have a Ballon d'Or winner for 2007, and his name is Kaka. The Corriere della Sera ...
Someone Told Kaka He Won the Golden Ball. Maybe.
By Martha | November 24th, 2007According to reports in the always reliable Italian media, Ricky Kaka has already been unofficially informed that the Golden Ball will be his. Apparently his ...
Zlatan to be Ceremonially Buried in Money?
By Martha | November 21st, 2007Every major Italian sports paper this morning is exploding with the story of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's pending mega-deal with Inter, one which will apparently involve regular ...
News Roundup as Milan Try Frantically to Find Michael Jordan's Number
By Martha | November 19th, 2007I'm traveling Tuesday morning; will get back to the grindstone as soon as is humanly possible. •Kaka's dreams: 1)To captain Brazil; 2)To meet Michael Jordan; 3)To ...
Wednesday Milan Musings
By Gianfranco | November 14th, 2007I have just about made peace with this weekend’s catastrophe. After absorbing a ton of great articles here at the Offside and elsewhere I ...
Odds and Ends as We Lose Another One to Jesus
By Martha | November 14th, 2007[All posts related to the death of Gabriele Sandri and its aftermath are collected here. The most recent is on top, and this one is ...
[Insert Wildly Clever Headline About Kaka's Golden Balls Here]
By Martha | November 9th, 2007Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a very confident post about how Gigi Buffon was going to become the first goalkeeper since Russia's legendary ...
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